Upcoming Auditions
Season Auditions
July 19th, 2025
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
July 20th, 2025
6:00pm - 10:00 pm

Audition Date & Time: Saturday, July 19 10AM-2PM & Sunday, July 20th 6PM-10PM
Callbacks: To be announced on a show-by-show basis
Location: Reno Little Theater - Main Theater (147 E. Pueblo St)
Audition material required: Show us your best 1-2 minute monologue.
Can't make it to auditions??? Please fill out our Video Submission form by Sunday 7/20 at 10PM or reach out to libby@renolittletheater.org for assistance. https://forms.gle/EE8jSeacWzLVaYaRA
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IF SLOTS ARE FULL and you'd prefer to audition in person, please email libby@renolittletheater.org for information on how to attend (or if you have any other questions). Thank you!
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Shows and cast breakdowns:
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1. BIRTHDAY CANDLES
Written by: Noah Haidle
Performance dates:
October 10 - 26, 2025
Rehearsals expected to begin August 2025.
Directed by: Adi Cabral
Synopsis:
Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, an infinity of dreams, and one cake baked over a century. This poignant and funny play takes its audience through the highlights, heartbreaks and extraordinary moments that make up one woman’s ordinary life.
Casting Breakdown:
Full-Length Play, Drama
3w, 3m
Twelve roles, six actors, one goldfish.
ERNESTINE ASHWORTH – Travels from age seven to 107. In that time she will be a daughter, a girlfriend, a wife, a mother, a friend, an aunt, a mother-in-law, a widow, a second wife, a grandmother, a great grandmother, and a great great grandmother.
ALICE – Selfless. Strong. Ernestine’s mother.
KENNETH – Ernestine’s awkward and annoying next door neighbor.
MATT – Chiseled jawline. A middle linebacker on the high school football team. Ernestine’s boyfriend then husband.
BILLY – Sensitive. An ear for music. Ernestine and Matt’s son.
MADELINE – Troubled. Bemused. Beautiful. Erudite. Ernestine and Matt’s daughter. Played by actor playing Alice.
JOAN – Anxious. Very anxious. Billy’s wife.
ALEX – Takes no bullshit. Billy and Joan’s daughter. Played by actor playing Joan.
ERNIE – Ethereal. Vivacious. She doesn’t walk, she glides. Alex’s daughter. Played by actor playing Alice and Madeline.
WILLIAM – Thirteen. Grand. Played by actor playing Matt.
JOHN – A man woken up in the middle of the night. Played by actor playing Billy.
BETH – John’s domestic partner, she quit smoking ten years ago and hasn’t been in a good mood since. Played by actor playing Joan and Alex.
2. A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Written by: Charles Dickens, Adapted for the stage by Sam Kebede
Performance dates:
November 14- Dec 21, 2025
Rehearsals expected to begin September 2025
Directed by: Lili Abel- Suarez
Synopsis:
The classic tale performed with only three performers (race/gender blind). There's magic, music, comedy, and more, all while keeping to the original story.
Casting Notes:
Gender, Age, Race, and Sex are intentionally not specified in this production. Pronouns can be changed.
Casting Breakdown:
Comedy, 3 actors
SCROOGE – A Real “Scrooge”
ACTOR #1 – A Real “Actor #1”
ACTOR #2 – A Real “Actor #2”
3. THE COTTAGE
Written by: Sandy Rustin
Performance dates:
January 16 - February 8, 2026
Rehearsals expected to begin November 2025
Directed by: James Mardock
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Synopsis:
Sylvia and Beau find themselves in an English countryside cottage for their yearly rendezvous, and Sylvia knows this time it will be the beginning of their new life together. But when Beau demurs on a shared future, and their spouses arrive at the cottage, she realizes that this home-away-from-home is a refuge for determining a new path forward. With a tip of the hat to Noël Coward and sex comedies of the past, THE COTTAGE offers a perfect showcase for six actors with endless laughs, hilarious twists, daring physical comedy, and a happy ending for lovers everywhere.
Casting Breakdown:
Full Length, Comedy
3 men, 3 women
SYLVIA – a lovely and rash romantic
BEAU – perhaps the best looking man in Britain
MARJORIE – 8 months pregnant, pragmatic and a tad spicy
CLARKE – a distinguished gent with a lover's spirit
DIERDRE – an awfully pretty, sometimes wise, nincompoop
RICHARD – a murderous, yet gentle soul
4. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID
Written by: Sarah Treem
Performance dates:
March 27-April 12, 2026
Rehearsals expected to begin February 2026
Directed by: Moira Bengochea
Synopsis:
In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. But to Agnes’s dismay, her latest runaway, Mary Anne, is beginning to influence Agnes’s college-bound daughter Penny. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside of Agnes’s tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she’s spent her life trying to help.
Casting Breakdown:
Full length, Drama
1 man, 4 women
AGNES – early fifties, proprietress of the bed and breakfast
PENNY – teenager, Agnes’ daughter
MARY ANNE – mid-twenties, runaway
PAUL – mid-thirties, songwriter
HANNAH – early thirties, traveler
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5. SWEAT
Written by: Lynn Nottage
Performance dates:
May 29 - June 14, 2026
Rehearsals expected to begin April 2026
Directed by: Lily Baran
Synopsis:
Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.
Casting Breakdown:
Full Length, Drama
6 men, 3 women
EVAN – African-American, forties; Jason and Chris's parole officer. Evan exists only in the 2008 timeline
JASON – white American of German Descent, twenty-one/twenty-nine; Jason is the son of Tracey and former close friend of Chris
CHRIS – African-American, twenty-one/twenty-nine; Chris is the son of Cynthia and Brucie and aspires to attend college. He is the former close friend of Jason
STAN – white American of German descent, fifties; Stan runs the bar the characters frequent
OSCAR – Colombian-American, twenty-two/thirty; Oscar initially works at the bar with Stan, but goes on to work at the factory
TRACEY – white American of German descent, forty-five/fifty-three. Tracey is the mother of Jason
CYNTHIA – African-American, forty-five/fifty-three. Cynthia is the mother of Chris and former wife of Brucie
JESSIE – Italian-American, forties
BRUCIE – African-American, forties. Brucie is the father of Chris and former husband of Cynthia
6. THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Written by: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
Performance dates:
July 10- Aug 9, 2026
Rehearsals expected to begin late April 2026
Directed by: Melissa Taylor
Assistant Direction by: Ryan Hartley
Synopsis:
You all know the classic murder mystery story. There has been an untimely death at a country manor, everyone is a suspect, and an inspector is set on the case to find who the culprit is. However, when this play is performed by the accident-prone thespians of The Cornley Drama Society, everything that can go wrong…does! The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! From Mischief, the creators of the West End smash Peter Pan Goes Wrong, critically acclaimed TV series The Goes Wrong Show, and the Tony Award®-winning Broadway hit The Play That Goes Wrong, this is the original one-act play which started everything going wrong. Over the course of an hour, expect a plethora of disasters from missed lines to falling props. Do you ever find out who murdered Charles Haversham? You’ll have to see for yourself!
Casting Breakdown:
One Act, Comedy
6 men, 2 women (flexible casting)
ANNIE – the company's stage manager. American accent.
TREVOR – the company's lighting and sound operator, American accent.
CHRIS – the head of the drama society, directed the play and plays Inspector Carter
JONATHAN – plays Charles Haversham
ROBERT – plays Thomas Colleymoore
DENNIS – plays Perkins
MAX – plays Cecil Haversham and Arthur the Gardener
SANDRA – plays Florence Colleymoor​​